Course content

• Service architectures
• Automation with platform-independent languages
• Databases and applications
• Accessibility: theory and practice
• Upgrading and maintenance of high-availability infrastructures
• Data storage and distributed databases
• Statistics applications in system administration
• Backup and restore active data
• Performance measurements and analysis
• Monitoring and capacity calculation in dynamic infrastructures

Learning outcome

• Knowledge:
• K1: The candidate has good knowledge of different service architectures and their application.
• K2: The candidate has a good knowledge related to the performance and scalability of architectures.
• K3: The candidate has good knowledge of how to achieve high availability and security.
• Skills:
• F1: The candidate can set up and maintain databases and web-based applications.
• F2: The candidate can set up and maintain high availability mechanisms (load balancing and database replication).
• F3: The candidate can perform performance tests of storage, databases and web servers and apply statistical analyzes to the data.
• F4: The candidate can perform caching in different parts of a service architecture to achieve higher performance.
• F5: The candidate can design and implement a backup system in a dynamic infrastructure as well as carry out recovery.
• General competence:
• G1: The candidate has good knowledge of various approaches and the culture in the field of system administration.
• G2: The candidate has good insight into troubleshooting various infrastructure environments.

Learning methods and activities

Lectures, problem solving individually and in groups, lab exercises, online-supported learning.

Compulsory assignments

• Exercises

Further on evaluation

Mandatory course work: All exercises must be accepted to sit the exam.

Resit exam is in August. In the case of a written resit exam, the form can be changed to oral.

Specific conditions

Recommended previous knowledge

• DCST1006 Data communication and networks
• DCST2002 Web Development
• IDATT2202 Operating systems

Course materials

Thomas A. Limoncelli ,Strata R. Chalup,Christina J. Hogan. "The Practice of Cloud System Administration", Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (September 13, 2014).

Credit reductions